Hiding url, HOW? ( script question )

[Sid70]

well, im not saying surfers become that smart they can eliminate your nats link to cut your coin, but anyhow, is there ANY SCRIPT TO HIDE THE URL where user is being sent?

Thanks.

[Your Mothers Secret]

Hello
um,,,,check out the yellow link from a top notch company

[AnniKN]

I made a quite simple custom one, it also counts click - you DO have to enter the link on the database and then used the link with that variable but if this is sort of what you're looking for just hit me up.

[ClickBuster]

Best thing to do is to use some redirect script. So instead of linking to

http://sponsor.com/tracking_code

you link to

http://yoursite.com/sponsor_name

which redirects to the first link above. I can set you up with a very simple script to do that very cheap. I use it on my site http://extramilf.com/blog check every sponsor link to see where it goes

[SmokeyTheBear]

Originally Posted by Your Mothers Secret

Hello
um,,,,check out the yellow link from a top notch company

isn't this a bit misleading ?

"Whether your visitor clicks on your affiliate link or not


As long as s/he buys the product after visiting your website


Even if s/he makes a purchase from that site a few days or months later"

Can you explain to us how i get a sale months later if my sponsor doesn't use cookies to track sales ?

[AnniKN]

Originally Posted by AnniKN

I made a quite simple custom one, it also counts click - you DO have to enter the link on the database and then used the link with that variable but if this is sort of what you're looking for just hit me up.

Errr, this is for free obvs - but needs MySQL (has admin panel)

[directfiesta]

click on the bottom link in my sig ... text file, no mysql needed.

if you like, I can post the code.

[AnniKN]

Nice one directfiesta although this is not my thread, if you could post it I would appreciate it - thank you!

[Sid70]

Originally Posted by directfiesta

click on the bottom link in my sig ... text file, no mysql needed.

if you like, I can post the code.

interesting... so it changes real link into /basic_hosting... does it affect browser url line only? I mean still a CLICK surfer did was redirected correctly?

[SayWhut]

Fuck that use search and user friendly urls:-

http://www.derekbeau.com/how-to-hide...only-one-file/

[directfiesta]

Originally Posted by AnniKN

Nice one directfiesta although this is not my thread, if you could post it I would appreciate it - thank you!

you need to create a link.php file ( or name it whatever you want ) and upload on your site:

PHP Code:

<?PHP

if ($o == "l1") {$link = "http://www.lunarpages.com/id/my_id";} // Default link
if ($o == "l2") {$link = "http://www.yahoo.com";}
if ($o == "l3") {$link = "http://forums.digitalpoint.com";}
if ($o == "l4") {$link = "http://blog.findinforums.com";}

header("Location: $link"); // Jump to the hiddden affiliate URL above
exit();
?>

then you put your link in your page(s) like:

http://www.mydomain.com/links.php?o=l1 ( goes to lunarpages )
http://www.mydomain.com/links.php?o=l2 ( goes to yahoo )
etc ....

easy, no db ....

[AnniKN]

Cool! :w00t:

I am ironically sucky at php yet good at databases so this was of great help *takes note and learns*

[Sid70]

thanks me for this good thread, LOL. THank you fellas.

[fuzzylogic]

Originally Posted by directfiesta

you need to create a link.php file ( or name it whatever you want ) and upload on your site:

PHP Code:

<?PHP

if ($o == "l1") {$link = "http://www.lunarpages.com/id/my_id";} // Default link
if ($o == "l2") {$link = "http://www.yahoo.com";}
if ($o == "l3") {$link = "http://forums.digitalpoint.com";}
if ($o == "l4") {$link = "http://blog.findinforums.com";}

header("Location: $link"); // Jump to the hiddden affiliate URL above
exit();
?>

then you put your link in your page(s) like:

http://www.mydomain.com/links.php?o=l1 ( goes to lunarpages )
http://www.mydomain.com/links.php?o=l2 ( goes to yahoo )
etc ....

easy, no db ....

thanks for the code, but it doesnt seem to work for me. all i get is a white page after clicking a link using your code example unaltered.

any other suggestions for cloaking affiliate links?

[Varius]

I would just use an apache redirect line in the vhost.

[directfiesta]

I just took out that the link using this of my sig ... People were confusing lunarpages with me ...

Let me check the script somewhere on my hd...

[Iron Fist]

.htaccess redirects will take care of this easily...

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^go/modelsite/  http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/............. [R=301,NC]

and just add more rewriterule lines for the domain you want to redirect URLs on!

So in the example above, if my domain was "redirect.com" the URL would be

http://www.redirect.com/go/modelsite/

and it would automatically direct the surfer to http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/..........

and of course, CCBILL would redirect after setting the cookie to the site - looks seemless to the surfer.

Enjoy.

[BSleazy]

I've been looking for something like this that will count clicks to affiliate programs too so I can compare them.

[Adult Creative Labs]

Nice script right there.

[Lace]

bump this up